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Principal Investigator Case Study

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AAG has assembled a multi-disciplinary team uniquely qualified to accomplish this UAS design and subsequent implementation. Our team is experienced in software and hardware development, aircraft instrumentation, and simulation and flight research as well as aircraft control law design, nonlinear aircraft dynamics, stability and control, UAS path-planning and decision-making, and UAS Detect and Avoid, and three team members are both engineers and pilots. The Principal Investigator (PI) for the team is Sally Johnson, with over 30 years of experience in planning and leading related research and development. Jesse Couch, Co-Investigator (Co-I), led a student team to design and build a UAS and participated in the North Carolina State University …show more content…

There are three separate software development efforts within the …show more content…

All other software will be Class D software.
3. Limited software prototyping and simulation needed for concept exploration for wrapper complex mode logic. The wrapper prototype code will not be enduring, but will be used to demonstrate effective integration of some complex mode logic, and we intend to document the resulting mode logic design in an AIAA Conference Paper. If there is follow-on funding to build the UAS testbed, we will start over with new software to implement the mode logic design.
(a) Safety Critical Functions: None
(b) Software classification: Class E, because the code is not enduring. Although we will publish the results of the mode logic simulation in a conference paper, any quantification will not depend on software correctness, as results can be checked independent of the code.

The Software Management Plan addresses all three design efforts. The following software life-cycle products will be produced during the design

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